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FITTING FOR AND METHOD 0]? SEATING SHIPS ANGHORSL No. 323,774. PatentedAug. 4, 1885.

I SAMUEL BAXTER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

FITTING FOR AND METHOD-OF SEATING SHIPS ANCHORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,774, dated August4, 1885.

Application filed November 6, 1884. (No model.) Patented in EnglandJanuary 3, 1882, No. 26.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BAXTER, a subject of the Queen of Great.Britain, residing at 18 and 19 Great St. Helens, in the city of London,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fittingsfor and in the Method of Stowing or Seating Ships Anchors, (for which Ihave received Letters Patent in Great Britain, No. 26, dated January 3,1882,) of which the following is a specilica tion.

This invention has for its object improvements in fittings for and inthe method of stowing or seating ships anchors of that class known asstockless anchors; and my invention consists in making the hawse-pipe ofa diameter sufficient to take the anchor-shank. I also so construct andfix the parts that the outer mouth of the pipe is kept a certaindistance within the ships outer skin,

while around it I form a space or recess to receive the arms or flukes,which lie entirely within the outside surface of the vessel, while theanchor will, when let go, drop by gravitation.

To avoid injury to the cable when the ship is riding, or when she isforging ahead of her anchor, I fit a bolster of iron or other materialaround the recess, which is beveled off to meet the plating or plankingof the ship, upon which bolster the cable will bear, as well as upon therounded mouth of the hawse-pipe. I also so curve and shape the saidbolster as to guide the arms or flukes into the desired position. Bythese means I am enabled to heave up and seat ships anchors within theship without the intervention of any gear but the cable attached to theanchor, which cable is operated by a Windlass or capstan, as usual. Iform the hawse-pipe and its fitting in one casting, while I form thebolster of another casting, the other portions of the space orrecess'being lined or formed with wrought-iron plating and angle-iron,and the hawse-pipe and its fittings being connected thereto.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a sectional plan, and Fig. 2 is an elevation, of the forepart of a ship fitted with anchor-seatings 5o constructed according tomy invention. Fig. 3 is an elevation. Fig. 4 is a plan of a seatingdrawn to a larger scale and Figs'i' 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are sectionsdrawn on the lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Figs. 3 and 4.

I form in the side of the vessel a recess, the top, back, and end ofwhich I form of wroughtiron plating a, connected to the ships framing byangle-iron b. To the end a of this lining a, I fix the casting 0, whichforms the hawse-pipe, and is provided at its bottom with a base, 0,which rests upon and is fixed to the' bottom a of the casing a, while onthe side 0 the mouth of the hawse-pipe is extended and sloped and curveddown so as to meet the casting d, forming the bolster and entrance tothe seating. This casting d at its forward part is sloped down, as shownat Fig. 10, so as to receive the shank and arms of the anchor as thelatter is being raised, and the inclined face of such casting d is soshaped and curved, as shown at Figs. 9, 8, 7, and 6, that in thecontinued raising of the anchor the latter is caused to assume theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The meeting edges of the castings c andd are made flush, so as to offer no impediment to the raising of theanchor, and the back edge, 0 of the outer end of the hawse-pipe beingcontinued, and sloped down until it meets the casting (Z, also acts uponthe arms or flukes of the anchor and assists to turn them into theposition shown at Figs. 1 and 2. e e are portions of the ships frame,and f is a door which when the anchor is safely seated is let down andsecured in any or, and afloor gradually decreasing in abruptverticalinclination from the mouth of the ness from front to rear, and thehawse-pipe haWse-pipe to the mouth of the recess, subopening into saidrecess, as set forth. stantiztlly as set forth.

2. The combination, with the ship having SAML. BAXTER. 5 the recesstherein, of the haWse-pipe, eonsist- XVitnesses:

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